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Toxicity

AI Risk

language being rude, disrespectful, threatening, or identity-attacking toward certain groups of the user population (culture, race, and gender etc)

Overview

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Mitigations0Defenses that may help with related attacks.
Records2Source records unified into this concept.

Risk profile

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Domain1. Discrimination & Toxicity
Subdomain1.2 > Exposure to toxic content
Entity2 - AI
Intent3 - Other; 2 - Unintentional
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategorySocial Norm; Harmful Content
SubcategoryToxicity

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MITRISK-Liu2024-30.06.01 - Toxicity

language being rude, disrespectful, threatening, or identity-attacking toward certain groups of the user population (culture, race, and gender etc)

Domain1. Discrimination & ToxicitySubdomain1.2 > Exposure to toxic contentSourceTrustworthy LLMs: a Survey and Guideline for Evaluating Large Language Models' AlignmentYear2024

MITRISK-Cui2024-02.01.02 - Toxicity

"Toxicity means the generated content contains rude, disrespectful, and even illegal information"

Domain1. Discrimination & ToxicitySubdomain1.2 > Exposure to toxic contentSourceRisk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model SystemsYear2024

Mitigations

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Source evidence

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